Regulations and flows in transnational rail traffic : the relationship between the development in governance of international railway traffic and the flows across Dutch and Belgian cross-border rail links, 1850-2000

Railways are often seen as important means of integration, economically, socially and culturally. Whereas most of the literature so far has focused on integration through railways within the borders of different nation-states, this paper aims to present the development of cross-border railway traffic in the nineteenth and twentieth century. The first part of the paper offers an overview of railway governance in Europe in general, illustrated with some Dutch and Belgium examples. In the last third of the paper we will discuss the development of transnational rail traffic to and from the Netherl... Mehr ...